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Roberta was a software engineer at Spartacus
known previously as Robert she did cocaine
and worked through the night when she missed a day
intolerable to her Manager 
Ed the Russian immigrant 
Ed fired her.
Systems Programmer Dave routinely 
went to his home computer room for after-hours hardware fun
Dave didn’t believe in hierarchy and
chose which tasks from Ed to do. 
Ed gave Dave a zero dollar raise 
he told Dave improve or lose the job
Dave tried to please Ed
next chance Ed fired him.
I learned business lessons there.
I wrote a print driver that Ed had not assigned 
and when Fibronics bought Spartacus 
jumped ship.